Yikes!  Ron pointed out below that sourceforge was uploading
the wrong file.  This was some sort of sourceforge bug because
the download page reported the correct filesize but downloaded
a smaller file.  I *think* it's fixed now.  He writes below.

paron wrote:
> Hello, Aaron
>
> Nice work! (I think). The examples make xsdb look pretty slick. Where
> are you headed with it? Is it a one-off, a hobby, a new standard, or
> just a how-about-that?

Depends on the delusions of grandeur quotient of the moment.
It's at least a way to keep my brain from turning into a cabbage,
and I'm going to try to get other people interested too.

> I see that I can get <nothing/> as a response to a query; how about
as
> a value in a table? I wasn't quite sure that I could find an example
of
> a "null" in any of the examples on the Sourceforge homepage -- is it
> possible? undesirable?

If an attribute is missing in a table then that is an "unknown"
null value.  Aggregate values can also have a "no value" nothing
of form <a at="flightspeed"><nothing/></a>.

> Finally, I couldn't find any .cs files in the download -- did I get
the
> wrong package?

See above.  Aarrgh.

> Still, very intriguing work, regardless of the answers.

Thank!  -- Aaron Watters